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tejassrinivasan.bsky.social
CS PhD student at USC. Former research intern at AI2 Mosaic. Interested in human-AI interaction and language grounding.
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This month, @jessezhang.bsky.social completed his PhD defense and signed to start a postdoc with @abhishekunique7.bsky.social at UW! Keep an eye on his journey :) www.jessezhang.net I'm sad to lose one of my sinistral students but glad to produce another Dr. Jesse 😛

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs are all around us, but how can we foster reliable and accountable interactions with them?? To discuss these problems, we will host the first ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org! Submissions welcome from NLP, HCI, CogSci, and anything human-centered, due June 20 :) origen-workshop.github.io

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This! So much this!!!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing says “I love you” like outsourcing your parents’ phone calls to a chatbot. 🙃 Social isolation in aging is real. Connection isn’t something you can automate. Why does everyone think we can just throw a chatbot at every problem? </rhetorical> www.404media.co/i-tested-the...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

submitted 105 days ago • 36 comments

I worry that concerns with "superintelligence" are being blurred with concerns around *ceding human control*. A "SuperDumb" system can create mutually assured destruction. What it takes is allowing AI systems to execute code autonomously in military operations.

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

submitted 109 days ago • 535 comments

People are increasingly relying on AI assistance, but *how* they use AI advice is influenced by their trust in the AI, which the AI is typically blind to. What if they weren’t? We show that adapting AI assistants' behavior to user trust mitigates under- and over-reliance! arxiv.org/abs/2502.13321

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 123 days ago • 86 comments

‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second? In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems. Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

“Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.” They’re in the tent now. Cowards.

submitted 144 days ago • 55 comments

What the hell are we doing?

submitted 200 days ago • 3 comments